OBJECT LESSONS
The usefulness of leagues for development, expansion, or progress is well illustrated by what provinces and districts, outside Wellington, have already accomplished. The example of tho Canterbury League we. emphasised yesterday. Today it is shown., in tho course of an article in another column, that the Otago and tho Southland Leagues have each been inst-mmenta). in raising 43150,000 in England far .public develojtunepjj .works,
If the local bodies had been left to pursue their separate ways, this^ would riot have been done; nor would it have been the business of the New Zealand Government to organise the progressive spirit in Otago and Southland. For such a purpose local government is too decentralised, and national government too centralised.. What is wanted is something that will co-ordinate the local efforts, and give them a shape which will impress the central Government; that.is to say, the local bodies, without" sacrificing their independence, need some measure of common organisation for sustained effort. As a step in that direction, a development league appears to be a distinctly attractive proposition.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 38, 14 August 1919, Page 6
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176OBJECT LESSONS Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 38, 14 August 1919, Page 6
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